Customs ASO impounds Rs 90m illegal items, vehicles

LAHORE: Customs Lahore Anti-Smuggling Organization has confiscated Rs 90.2 million non-customs paid goods and articles and vehicles during the month of February financial year 2016-17.

As per details, the ASO confiscated Rs 92,000,000 illegally imported goods and vehicles which if were dumped in the market may have posed serious damage to the legal business in the market.

On information, the ASO seized Rs 75 million skimmed milk and bags of dry milk from a rice Sheller from Muridke. The customs official sources said that the milk was being supplied to the outles which make ice cream in the city.

The collectorate also seized millions of rupees worth non-customs paid luxury vehicles from various places in the city.

The crackdown against the smugglers was undertaken by a team of Customs ASO led by Assistant Collector Asim Awan.

Sources said that the Assistant collector has instructed all the ASO staff to adopt zero tolerance against any kind of smuggling of non-customs paid items under the limits of collectorate of Lahore Preventive.